Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Lost love Getting over someone Broken heart Love

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Tonight I Can Write (Puedo Escribir Los Versos) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Medium

Love poem Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Poet Writer

From

Chile South America

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Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

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Language
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Time
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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.

Another quote about Love

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Topic
Vulnerability Love

Author

Theodor Adorno
Source
Minima Moralia
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

Current Citation

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Another quote originally in Spanish

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Author

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Medium
Essay
Language
Spanish
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela [The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel]. Revista de Occidente, 1925.

Current Citation

Ortega y Gasset, Jose. "The Dehumanization of Art." The Dehumanization of Art, and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature, translated by Helene Weyl. Princeton University Press, 2019.